By picking Kamala Harris as his running mate, Joe Biden gave some signals about his view of the campaign, his approach toward decision-making, and the traits he would bring to governing if he wins, writes USA TODAY's SusanPage
Vice presidential candidates almost never affect the outcome of a presidential campaign one way or another. No running mate since Lyndon Johnson in 1960 is credited with pushing the ticket over the top, and not even controversial running mates like Sarah Palin in 2008 are blamed with costing the ticket a victory.
Biden seemed drawn to the governing possibilities of former UN ambassador Susan Rice, but she had never run for elective office. California Rep. Karen Bass had controversies to explain over working in Cuba that had never come up when she was running for Congress in California. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottom and Rep. Val Demings of Florida were fresh faces, but they had never run statewide, let alone in a national race.Biden has no interest in shaking up a race he's leading.
, demanding in one early debate,"Do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose busing in America?"That may have been the high point of her campaign; it was one of the low points for him, and one that was especially unexpected by the Bidens because she had been a friend of Biden's son, Beau, when both were state attorneys general.
"It's very rare for people to actually vote for who they would rather see as vice president of the United States," said Christopher Devine, a political scientist at the University of Dayton whose book,"Do Running Mates Matter?"
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